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DELHI: He may not be a big-name NSW player, like Brett
Lee, Simon Katich or David Warner, but Victoria will still be
worried about Blues batsman Ben Rohrer in their Champions League
semi-final on Wednesday night.

By smacking 44 not out off 20 balls to drag NSW to victory in
the Big Bash final earlier this year, Rohrer did his bit to ruin
Victoria's hopes of four consecutive domestic Twenty20 titles.

Yet the unheralded 28-year-old left-hander is sceptical that
he's a Twenty20 specialist.

''I'm sure if you asked anyone a year ago if I would be playing
Twenty20 they would have laughed at you,'' Rohrer said in Delhi.
''I suppose in the four-day game I just use a lot of patience.
Sometimes it doesn't come, so it does take a bit longer to build
your innings.''

A long-time consistent run-scorer for Fairfield-Liverpool in
Sydney grade cricket, Rohrer was rewarded with a full state
contract just over two years ago.

''I played a bit of second XI but never really stamped my
authority on it until the season before I got my first contract. I
had a really good second XI year and ended up playing the last
Shield game and got 100 on debut … that was probably the year
that turned things around. I think I'm just one of those late
bloomers,'' he said.

Like so many before him, Rohrer found opportunities limited once
NSW's international players returned. His first taste of
limited-overs cricket came only last season, in the Big Bash and
Ford Ranger Cup.

After seven Shield matches he has a solid average of 47.36 at a
strike rate of just over 50 runs for every 100 balls faced. In the
Big Bash, however, his strike rate nudges 150.

Meanwhile, NSW are interested in securing big-hitting West
Indies all-rounder Kieron Pollard for this summer's domestic
Twenty20 tournament. Trinidad & Tobago star Pollard, 22, has
blasted 11 sixes at the Champions League and his strike rate of
203.38 is the best of any player who has batted more than once.

He hit an unbeaten 54 off 18 balls in his side's win over NSW,
including five fours and five sixes.

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